this russia thing with trump and russia is a madeup story, an excuse by the democrats for having lost. several of the times preand post-election that donald trump had difficulty saying that russia meddled in the u.s. election. today in poland is happen against. multiple warnings from the intelligence community but trump said nobody knows for sure. all eyes turn to the meeting with putin tomorrow. and of course it will be the small group, something putin prefers. secretary of state tillerson, sergey lavrov be the counterpart. the back drop to the meeting watt home the new poll finds 54% of americans nink trump acted illegal or unethically with regard to russia issues. a former dpomt in the obama administration, and an russia. expertise in the national security council. and our congressional reporter for npr. starting with you, angela, when
and i have real questions about whether or not we re going to actually know what is said during that meeting. we do expect him to raise the issue of syria. he effectively did that today. ukraine as well. but will he press him on the key new? you have democrats and republicans urging him to do exactly that. and ari we know there will be six who people in the room. he secretary of state rex tillerson. sergey lavrov. and three translatesers. it s a very small group of people who know what is actually said. and of course the key question will be how tough is he with putin? jonathan what will we learn from a meeting like this typically according to protocols. normally countries would release a readout of the meeting some within an hour a couple hours of conclusion. the trump white house has been slower than the obama white house was in giving us that giving that information to the press. sometimes it wouldn t even come out until the next day. but this is the event that has been months
implicating the president. the white house secretary was also pushed on putin s involvement would require a more robust response. we have known fr soor some t that senior officials were involved. the u.s. intelligence community recognized from the beginning how serious this one. that is after the statement saying that russia deliberately left out putin s name. they are not comments on the world, citing the report from the president. last night, the republican chairman of the house intelligence community issues this statement saying they would not send a briefer to capitol hill. devin nunez write that s in
it makes sense that he did business with the guy. vladimir putin controls a ton of oil, that makes sense. how do you satisfy the nation of the relationship? tillerson received an award saying he was a friend of russia but that s not really for being a friend. that is a completed deal. of course, but others have serious concerns about what is the u.s. policy towards russia. russia was helping the assad regime massacre civilians. what is their response to these allegation that s putin ordered a signer hacking. these are the questions that will be raised. it is the questions that tillerson has good answers for. some of the people raising
election. if you take his comments to halle jackson. it would suggest he is not going to. and i have real questions about whether or not we re going to actually know what is said during that meeting. we do expect him to raise the issue of syria. he effectively did that today. ukraine as well. but will he press him on the key new? you have democrats and republicans urging him to do exactly that. and ari we know there will be six who people in the room. he secretary of state rex tillerson. sergey lavrov. and three translatesers. it s a very small group of people who know what is actually said. and of course the key question will be how tough is he with putin? jonathan what will we learn from a meeting like this typically according to protocols. normally countries would release a readout of the meeting some within an hour a couple hours of conclusion. the trump white house has been slower than the obama white house was in giving us that giving that information to the